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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 42 department stores
Best department stores in Singapore
The 10 most notable department stores in Singapore, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Takashimaya Department Store
391A Orchard Road, Ngee Ann City
424 m from Orchard MRT station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.270, percentile 100 of 42
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2
Harvey Norman Westgate Mall
3 Gateway Drive #B1-38/39 Westgate
132 m from Jurong East MRT station, metro
listed by Overture Maps Foundation and RenderSEO · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.264, percentile 97.56 of 42
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3
Og Albert Complex
60 Albert St
186 m from Rochor MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.256, percentile 95.12 of 42
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4
Metro Paragon
290 Orchard Rd, #02-28 Paragon
524 m from Somerset MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.252, percentile 92.68 of 42
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5
Metro Causeway Point
1 Woodlands Sq, #01 - 18 / 19 Causeway Point
155 m from Woodlands station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.242, percentile 90.24 of 42
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6
MUJI Plaza Singapura
68 Orchard Rd, #01-10 to 22
127 m from Dhoby Ghaut MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.241, percentile 87.8 of 42
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7
Mustafa Centre
145 Syed Alwi Rd
303 m from Farrer Park MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.233, percentile 85.37 of 42
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8
OG Orchard Point
160 Orchard Rd
176 m from Somerset MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.230, percentile 82.93 of 42
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9
OG People's Park
100 Upper Cross St
98 m from Chinatown MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.210, percentile 80.49 of 42
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10
Harvey Norman Mid Valley Southkey
Persiaran Southkey 1
listed by Overture Maps Foundation and RenderSEO · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.185, percentile 78.05 of 42
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).